The Twelve Hours in Chang'an, Volumes 1 and 2, Author: Ma Boyong, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction

The 14th day of the first month in the third year of the Tianbao reign of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an. The residents of the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty did not know that when the brilliant lanterns of the Lantern Festival were lit, a catastrophe that would devour everything would be waiting for them. Turks, wolf guards, kidnapping, assassination, flames, burning cities, the gears of destroying Chang'an City have begun to turn. And the only hope of saving Chang'an is a one-eyed death row prisoner who is about to be beheaded and a short twelve hours...

About the Author

Ma Boyong: Writer. Winner of the People's Literature Award and Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, known as a "literary genius". He was rated as following the "lineage of historical literary creation since the May Fourth Movement" and "his writing style is full of quirks". His representative work "The Antique Bureau" was selected as one of the top ten literary books of the year in the fourth "China Book Power List".